CORONATION CUSTOM

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 422, 1 May 1937, Page 5

CORONATION CUSTOM

ALTAR FRONT FOR ABBEY Presentation By King And Queen Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.50 a.m. London, April 30. It is learned that Their Majesties have presented an altar front to West, minster Abbey, in accordance with the ancient custom by which the Sovereign presents padt of the furnishings used. CORONATION DAY Broadcasting Arrangements (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 30. The Post Office has made elaborate arrangements to carry Coronation broadcasts from London to 12 different countries in Europe and by radiotelephone exchange to the greater part of the Empire and North and South America. The broadcast will be taken to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary. Commentators who are engaged in these broadcasts will speak in the language of the country to which they are broadcasting. The Post Office is arranging special lines for them, and 10 observation boxes have been made available overlooking the entrance to Westminster Abbey and four in Green Park, connected by Post Office lines to a specially constructed control room in the Middlesex Guildhall. The total wire mileage involved is about 50,000 miles, and at least 150 amplifiers will be required in order that the volume of transmissions over submarine cables and landlines may be maintained at a satisfactory level. ‘The Coronation service in the Abbey will be picked up and transmitted over these special circuits. More than 100 peers attended a Coronation rehearsal at Westminster Abbey this morning. They included some of the great officers of State, who will carry the Queen’s regalia.